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Here's what I see, professionally: the aluminum cylinder head would be a problem, but that VM went the extra distance and placed 6 bolts equi-distance around each cylinder, same as the Isuzu aluminum heads, but critical in any Diesel application - the wet cylinder liners are not a problem, having been proven in billions of miles of hard service - the forged steel crank is certainly not a problem, as are not the forged steel rods - the full-circle mains-carriers are surrounded full-circle by the cast-iron bulkheads, good for radial stresses, maybe not for axial stresses, which would be greatly increased in a clutched manual-transmission setup, way less of a problem in our (USA) KJ, the auto trans smoothing out the stresses of gear changes - I have wondered about the possible existence of cast-iron carriers, maybe a Euro version for HD service, such as lorries and trams
Only thing that concerns me is the twin balance-shaft setup - will the design handle the increased inertial forces of the much quicker-accelerating crankshaft? Being geared, it should not be a problem, but may not have been tested under extremely rapid rotational acceleration\deceleration events, such as 0-60mph in 6 seconds, where the crank rapidly accelerates to hi-rpm thru a gear range, then rapidly decelerates to lower rpm as the trans upshifts, repeating the sequence as demanded.
No intention of war, just offering another viewpoint for your consideration - what are your thoughts, considering this?
FYI - I've worked with programmers over the entire span of my professional career (I'm retired, now), and experiences were that they ranged from secretive\furtive to extremely paranoid, some criminally paranoid, given to aggressive behavior and unnecessary\unwarranted threats of retaliation - doesn't make for easy discourse when immediatley forced into being defensive - don't be surprised at any adverse reaction when approaching any programmer as to operational specifics in his work
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